part of the defense that is not a meaningful defense. but the judge is ordering these lawyers to stay on the case. their job is to be there if we have questions. and it will help to prevent the reversal on appeal. jon: otherwise it would be called a necessity defense. but they are essentially saying i had to kill americans to save them, but they are saying no, that s too speculative, so what is the defendant were to argue? the old saying that you heard it, we ve all heard it, he represents himself. it really appeared that nidal hasan might be on a mission of his own. and dan is right, it is so bizarre when you are accused of a heinous crime, for him to confront, which he has a right to, the alleged victim in this
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as nearly 2 5shgs had been news people again to settle in for the trial, outside the federal courthouse, so is the city of denver. during his trial, attorney general think mcveigh does not deny that he set the truck bomb. he instructs his lawyers to use a necessity defense. that he acted in self-defense against an oppressive federal government. mcveigh looked at the federal trial as a multi-million dollar soapbox for his anti-government views. that he felt he had no choice but to blow up a building and kill 168 people. is everything still all right? no. no complaints? so it s a situation here that s a lot better than it was day and night. in his distorted world view,
as nearly 2500 news people begin to settle in for the trial outside the federal courthouse, so is the city of denver. during his trial, timothy mcveigh does not deny that he set the truck bomb. he instructs his lawyers to use the necessity defense, that he acted in self defense against an oppressive federal government. mcveigh looked at the federal trial as a multi-million dollar soap box for his anti-government views, that he felt he had no choice but to blow up a building and kill 168 people. is everything still all right? great. you have no complaints. no, they resolve every problem i bring up? so the situation here is a lot better?
they call in civilian courtrooms a necessity defense. he s sort of saying i had to do this in order to save taliban lives. now, that s not going to fly, is it? is. it s not going to fly. in fact, the judge instructs him and instructed the jury in this case that that is not a defense. and, in fact, when he gets into that which we expect he will testify in this case when he gets into those fact, the judge will instruct them again not to consider it. gregg: yeah. it s not going to fly. you can analyze that more technically. there s no causal link whatsoever. gregg: no. which is why the judge said you can t do it, but he s going to try anyway. all right, want to move on to the whitey bulger case. day three of distributions. and the jurors of deliberations. and the jurors asked the judge, do we have to find unanimous findings on each of the 33 criminal acts included in the racketeering charge. now,ly coe stuff, steven rico stuff, 1250e67b steven, is very
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